David Bowie

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David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8th, 1947) is an influential multi-instrumentalist and has remained an active musician since the 1960s. He has traversed through many genres and styles, and oftentimes has influenced, worked with, and coincided with Nine Inch Nails. In support of his 1995 Outside album, he co-headlined the Outside tour with Nine Inch Nails, and both bands would collaborate on each other's repertoire in between sets. He also appears briefly in Closure, chatting backstage as well as performing Hurt with Nine Inch Nails.

Reznor said in interviews that he played Low constantly during the recording of The Downward Spiral for inspiration. Incidentally, Reznor has been accused of using the main melody from Bowie's 1980 instrumental single "Crystal Japan" in Nine Inch Nails' 1994 track 'A Warm Place.' The two bear a striking resemblance.

The line "falls waking to the floor" from 1973 song 'Time' was featured in several remixes of Mr. Self Destruct from Further Down the Spiral.

Nine Inch Nails Remixes

Reznor remixed Bowie's 1995 single "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" (Alt. Mix).
Nine Inch Nails (Reznor, Charlie Clouser, Keith Hillebrandt, Dave Ogilvie, Danny Lohner) made 5 remixes for Bowie's 1997 single 'I'm Afraid of Americans' (V1, V2, V3, V4, V6). Reznor starred in the music video as a psychopathic stalker, taking the role of "Johnny" from the song.

Discography

Studio Albums

David Bowie (1967)
Space Oddity (1969)
The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
Hunky Dory (1971)
The Rize and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
Aladdin Sane (1973)
Pinups (1973)
Diamond Dogs (1974)
Young Americans (1975)
Station to Station (1976)
Low (1977)
'Heroes' (1977)
Lodger (1979)
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980)
Let's Dance (1983)
Tonight (1984)
Never Let Me Down (1987)
Black Tie, White Noise (1993)
The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
1.Outside (1995)
Earthling (1997)
...Hours (1999)
Heathen (2002)
Reality (2003)

Live Records

David Live (1974)
Stage (1978)
Ziggy Stardust: the Motion Picture (1983)
Santa Monica '72 (1994)
LiveAndWell.com (1999)
Bowie at the Beeb (2000)

Tin Machine

Tin Machine is an offshot rock n' roll band featuring David Bowie as lead vocalist and longtime collaborators Reeves Gabrels and Tony & Hunt Sales.

Tin Machine (1989)
Tin Machine II (1991)
Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey Baby (1992)

Press

In 2005, Bowie wrote about NIN in "The Immortals" for Rolling Stone, a list of the 100 greatest rock & roll artists of all time (NIN was #94):

...In making The Downward Spiral, [Reznor] encouraged the computer to misconstrue input, willed it to spew out bloated, misshapen shards of sound that pierced and lacerated the listener... [1]